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Photoshop Mix update makes app easier to use and interoperable with Photoshop Express

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by on August 29, 2014 at 8:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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Adobe’s Photoshop Mix app for iPad, released alongside a flurry of new updates for Adobe’s Creative Cloud 2014 suite, did something no other tablet-based app could — use the power of the cloud to perform sophisticated, processor-intensive editing functions such as content aware fill, lens correction and shake reduction. With its first upgrade — to version 1.1 — Adobe integrates some significant new elements and refinements to the Mix operation, as noted in the company’s blog post. An enhanced undo/redo lets you apply multiple undos or redos within a task, while the new image swapping feature improves the compositing function by letting you select foreground and background images on…

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Postmates launches a General Store for on-demand daily necessities

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by on August 29, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Postmates is expanding its on-demand delivery service to include a new General Store option stock with everyday items like medicine, energy drinks, cleaning supplies and condoms. Here are some of the products you can order: General Store is available 24/7 in all of the markets where Postmates operates. The startup’s running a promotion with free delivery this weekend through Monday, September 1st at midnight. Postmates deliveries start at $5 and vary based on distance. When I checked out General Store in the LA area, it had a sizable selection. Categories include: Allergy, Baby, Bath & Body, Candy & Snacks, Cold & Cough, Digestion…

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When should you delegate your tasks? A helpful guide for control freaks

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by on August 29, 2014 at 7:29 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, tunein

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Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social greeting card company Open Me, and digital marketing agency Ciplex. Are you killing your employees or coworkers with your controlling behavior? Delegating doesn’t come easy to many of us, but micromanaging rarely motivates people to work harder. According to a survey from OfficeTeam, nearly one in two employees have worked for a bad boss at some point in their careers. The book What To Do When There’s Too Much To Do by Laura Stack actually discovered 75 to 80 percent of American workers suffer…

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YouTube now lets you queue videos on the Web to send to Chromecast

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by on August 29, 2014 at 6:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Following its recent facelift, YouTube today began rolling out a new queuing feature for sharing videos to Chromecast from your computer. Google expects the updates to arrive for all users by early next week. With the new changes, you’ll be able to use a single tab to cast a video and then continue browsing to line up more to watch. You’ll also be able to cast playlists. YouTube has also confirmed updates we noticed earlier in the day that unify the design of the Add to Playlist and Share buttons on the desktop with the mobile apps. The company has…

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Internet Archive posts millions of images from old books on Flickr

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by on August 29, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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If you’re up for taking a trip down memory lane, this new Flickr photostream has got you covered. The Internet Archive teamed up with a researcher to upload images from its collection of scanned public domain books. Currently, the collection features 2.6 million of the 14 million total photos in the archive. The image entries also include the text before and after the image, so the photoset is quite searchable. If you want to read the book, there’s a link to the Internet Archive’s ebook viewer in each photo’s description. Since the images are already in the public domain, they’re posted…

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